Hemp Supporters To Congress: Legalize It

Under the intense gaze of former Speaker Sam Rayburn’s marble statue, roughly 50 industrial hemp supporters held an expo on Capitol Hill Tuesday to promote lifting the federal ban on hemp, man.

The expo -- sponsored by Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Reps. Jared Polis (D-Colo.), Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.) and Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) -- brought together an interesting, mostly bearded collection of hemp supporters, from clothes- and shampoo-makers to (extremely sugary) cannabis energy drink retailers and proponents of making car doors with hemp.

While many associate hemp with marijuana, the two are quite different. Unlike marijuana, industrial hemp has a low concentration of THC -- the chemical component which gives pot its power. With just 0.3 percent THC at its dried weight, hemp is simply not potent enough to cause a high if smoked, which, for some, is a total bummer, yes, but also raises the question of why hemp should be...

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